UPDATE: Headless torso is journalist from Danish submarine

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Wednesday 23 August 2017 - 7:50am

A Swedish journalist missing since August 11 after interviewing the inventor of a huge do-it-yourself submarine died in an accident on board the vessel and the inventor buried her at sea, Danish police said on August 21, 2017.
Photo: Tom WALL / FAMILY HANDOUT / AFP

SWEDEN – The headless torso of a woman found floating in Danish waters is that of a Swedish journalist who authorities believe died aboard an inventor's homemade submarine, police confirmed on Wednesday.

In a grisly case that has captured public imagination in both countries, Danish inventor Peter Madsen has been accused of the negligent manslaughter of Kim Wall.

Police probing the disappearance of Wall -- who hasn't been seen since she was observed aboard the 60-foot (18-metre) Nautilus on the evening of August 10 -- said Monday they had found a torso missing its head and limbs in Koge Bay, south of Copenhagen.

"The length of the torso means we cannot rule out that it could be Kim Wall, but we don't know yet," Copenhagen homicide chief Jens Moller Jensen said in a video message released on Twitter.

He said DNA samples had been taken from the torso and would be compared with Wall's. Police were to receive the results on Wednesday.